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The numbers come one day after the local real estate board in Calgary, which was expected to be a hot spot in the country for housing sales this year, said sales fell by more than 2 per cent compared to last March.

Meanwhile, high - end homes in the $ 2 - million - plus range accounted for only 5.5 per cent of detached house sales this year compared to 10 per cent in April 2017.

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2016's movie industry highlights include a monster year for Walt Disney, as the Mouse House set a new yearly global box office record, becoming the first studio to ever top $ 7 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

Sales of previously occupied homes rose in February to the highest level in nearly three years, while builders broke ground on more houses and apartments.

The number of Canadian homes sold in March plunged 23 per cent and the national average price was down 10 per cent from the same month last year amid double - digit plunges in most housing markets across the country, according to the latest monthly sales data released Friday.

With 34 shopping centers worldwide, Westfield houses more than 6,500 retailers and 400 million annual customer visits responsible for more than $ 16 billion in retail sales last year.

After 16 years, Dina Alker is going to put her house in Toronto up for sale Monday, joining the throngs of others in the city who have decided to downsize as a chill gripping what was once one of the hottest real estate markets in North America takes hold.

TORONTO — Realtors say home sales in the Greater Toronto Area shot up 21 per cent in August compared with last year, with strength in all major housing categories.

You may not land a sale for a single cornflake in the shape of Illinois (that already sold for $ 1,350 a few years back), but chances are good that you'll be able to generate quick cash just from things you have around your house.

However, sales of building materials fell by the most in a year, a potentially worrying signal from the housing market.

This year's bestseller, Barefoot Contessa Foolproof by Ina Garten ($ 35; Clarkson Potter / Random House), had topped sales of 132,000 at press time.

Last year, Downeast Cider House posted $ 8.1 million in sales.

Expect that trend to continue this year as a housing industry hungry for sales develops homes for the Millennial market.

The British Columbia Real Estate Association has released its 2018 first quarter housing forecast, showing residential sales are expected to fall 8.6 per cent to 94,855 units this year, with the decline continuing into 2019.

White House lawyers and other officials studied the option of overriding the ban but did not develop a strong legal position or an effective political sales pitch in an election year, a source familiar with the discussions said.

TORONTO — Housing sales in the Greater Toronto Area were down by less than one per cent in June compared with the same month a year ago, while the average selling price was up by 4.7 per cent at $ 531,374, according to a report by Toronto Real Estate Board.

After a rough start to the year, economic data have firmed lately, with strength in housing, spending and retail sales pushing some Fed officials to believe that their inflation target of 2 percent is within reach.

In just one year, Vancouver house prices have dropped by 12 %, and unit sales are plummeting in both Vancouver and Toronto.

Housing sales are reported to have hit a five year high, with related increases in the value of properties, according to the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.

The factory data added to reports on auto sales, housing and employment in suggesting the economy was regaining some speed, but probably not fast enough to encourage the Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates next month, as most economists had anticipated at the beginning of the year.

Existing home sales are up 9.7 percent over a year ago, new home prices touch record highs and Matt Phillips says the hidden indicators on housing are buried in Home Depot's «rock solid» earnings.

Upstate New York added relatively few jobs in housing - related sectors (e.g. construction and sales of consumer durable goods) during the boom years;

In the United States, March retail sales, industrial production and housing figures all disappointed, and the persistent softness in U.S. economic data means the United States will struggle to hit the 3 % annual growth rate that investors had expected at the beginning of the year.

Housing demand is also being supplemented by bankruptcy survivors who waited out their 7 year exile joining first time buyer millennials, babyboomers, immigrants, foreign investors (Canadian and Chinese), and even gen Xers, all of whom are looking for houses for sale.

«If we don't see the new listings number turn around next month or a pickup in new housing starts, inventory will be a persistent drag on sales for the remainder of the year.»

In the housing market, meanwhile, millennials made up 32 percent of sales in 2014, up 4 percentage points from two years earlier — making them the largest segment of buyers, according to the National Association of Realtors.

A critical shortage of houses for sale caused home prices in March to take the biggest leap in four years.

House Democrats on Thursday unveiled a two - year budget that would increase the state sales tax to 6.99 percent.

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So too have analysts at SQM Research, which said there could be an oversupply of 8000 new dwellings — both apartments and house and land products — in greater Brisbane this year compounding concerns about settlements of off - the - plan sales.

(But remember, this only applies to a primary residence, which means you must have lived in the house for two of the five years prior to the sale.)

I netted $ 185,000 on the house after paying the mortage off, which is much more than I put down 2 years earlier to buy it as a short sale.

Although gun sales rose consistently during the Obama years, most of these sales were to existing owners, reacting to his appeals for more stringent laws after several mass shootings during his time in the White House.

Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada's largest housing market, and among the most inflated in the world, plunged 32 % in April, compared to a year ago, to 7,792 homes, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB), a real estate lobbying group.

The big housing market story in Manitoba was a surge of homes being offered for sale with new listings growing to levels almost 14 per cent above where they were a year ago.

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According to the housing report, the total number of home sales (including both new and existing homes) could rise 5 % next year to reach its highest level in eight years.

Housing sales in the first nine months surged 34.5 percent to 4.54 trillion yuan from a year earlier, according to government data released Oct. 18.

Exports fell 15 per cent in March, while housing sales measured by floor space fell 22.5 per cent from a year earlier.

In terms of floor space, housing sales jumped 55.2 % in the January - February period from a year earlier.

House sales in Vancouver could also drop fall 3 percent this year, and potentially decline more than 22 percent next year as well.

For its part, Canada's finance department projects home sales could fall as much as 8 per cent in the first year after new housing regulations are implemented, based on an analysis using historical data.

There have been signs the housing market is in recovery mode with year - over-year sales rising in many markets, albeit generally below 10 - year averages.

While still down overall from last year when sales started slumping in the face of fears about the housing market and tighter mortgage lending rules, high - rise condo construction starts came in 22 per cent higher in major urban centres in May compared with April.

When we report on changes in home sales we typically compare current sales to the previous year rather than the previous month to avoid comparing changes that have more to do with seasonal swings in the demand for houses.

Today the House passed a bill which would completely exempt from capital gains taxes (subject to per taxpayer limitations) the gain on the sale of qualified small business stock held for more than 5 years, if such stock was purchased... Continue reading →

The red - hot housing market around Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe has helped Canadian house sales rise 6.6 % in the year to March 2017 to a new record and values by 18.6 %.

The average price of houses that sold over the Multiple Listing Service in September was $ 385,906 nationally, up 8.8 per cent from a year ago, in large part because pricey cities, such as Toronto and Vancouver, are rebounding from steep sales declines a year ago.

Today the House passed a bill which would completely exempt from capital gains taxes (subject to per taxpayer limitations) the gain on the sale of qualified small business stock held for more than 5 years, if such stock was purchased after March 15, 2010, and before January 1, 2012.

Canada's housing market may be gradually cooling, but Toronto home sales are expected to remain so «brisk» over the coming months, prices could jump seven or eight per cent by the end of this year, says a new report from real estate giant ReMax.